As is stated over in our news section, ultra-weird chess champ Bobby Fischer was officially checkmated yesterday. But in honor of Mr. Fischer, we thought we'd go back and look at some of his most bizarre quotes. Dude was clearly the Mike Tyson of chess.
- Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
- Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.
- I like to make them squirm.
- I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
- [The United States is] a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards. (Note: Fischer's mother and likely biological father were both Jewish)
- The Russians have fixed world chess.
- I give 98 percent of my mental energy to chess. Others give only 2 percent.
- Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
- [On his mother]: She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends out- side of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.
- The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
- I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing. (note: Kasparov is now involved in Russian politics)
- All my games are real.
Needless to say, we're probably unlikely to ever see another man quite like Bobby Fischer, at least in chess.
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